Narendra Modi to hold meeting with ICT top bosses Friday

Narendra Modi to hold meeting with ICT top bosses Friday

Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is all set to hold a closed door meeting with the top 25-30 executives of information technology and telecom companies here Friday during which they will deliberate on the challenges facing the industry. The list of prominent participants in the meeting include Google, IBM, Nokia, Airtel, Vodafone, […]

Sourav Ganguly rules out joining politics

Sourav Ganguly rules out joining politics

Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly Thursday denied joining politics, following an offer by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to contest the Lok Sabha polls. Ganguly, who visited Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat regarding a school project of his, said he was better off on the playground. “No, no, not at all, […]

TCS net jumps 50 percent; beats estimates

TCS net jumps 50 percent; beats estimates

Beating street expectations again, Indian IT bellwether Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) reported net profit of Rs.5,314 crore for third quarter (October-December) of this fiscal (2013-14), a whopping 50 percent increase year-on-year (YoY) and 13 percent sequentially, as per the Indian accounting standard. In a statement after the markets closed for the day, the global […]

Power from gas at $8.4 a unit won’t find buyers: Scindia

Power from gas at $8.4 a unit won’t find buyers: Scindia

Producing power from gas at the higher approved price is possible but there will be no buyers for that electricity, Power Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said Thursday. “Producing power beyond $8.4 per mmbtu (million metric British thermal unit) is possible but it will never get sold. So you are producing a product the market won’t buy,” […]

Media told to report court orders only in ex-SC judge case

Media told to report court orders only in ex-SC judge case

The Delhi High Court Thursday restrained the media from further publishing or telecasting allegations of sexual harassment against former Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar by a former law intern. The media was directed to limit reporting to court orders only. Justice Manmohan, in an interim order, also restrained the telecast or printing of offending contents […]

BJP’s Delhi session from Friday eyes general polls

BJP’s Delhi session from Friday eyes general polls

bjpAchieving a target of more than 272 seats in this year’s Lok Sabha elections will be the focus as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders meet for a three-day brainstorming session here, starting Friday. “This session will be very important,” party leader Sudhanshu Trivedi told reporters Thursday after a meeting of the party’s national office-bearers, which […]

NDMC signs pact with Transparency International

NDMC signs pact with Transparency International

The NDMC, the smallest of three civic agencies in the capital, has signed a pact with Transparency International India to maintain high standards of integrity. NDMC chairman Jalaj Shrivastava said he was confident that the New Delhi Municipal Council “will set an example for other municipal bodies in India by adopting the guidelines and ethical […]

Curfew in Rajasthan village for third day

Curfew in Rajasthan village for third day

Curfew continued for the third consecutive day in a village in Rajasthan after three people were killed and 11 others injured in communal clashes, police said. The clashes took place Jan 14 between members of two communities in Kotadi in Pratapgarh district, some 300 km from Jaipur. “The clashes were triggered following a verbal spat […]

Delhi Police to complain to LG about ‘interfering ministers’

Delhi Police to complain to LG about ‘interfering ministers’

Delhi Police plans to write to Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung complaining about the “interfering” behaviour of two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ministers in police investigation, an official said Thursday. “We will write to the Lt. Governor about ministers Somnath Bharti and Rakhi Birla who are continuously interfering in police investigation,” a senior police officer, who […]

AAP talks tough after legislator revolts

AAP talks tough after legislator revolts

Delhi’s ruling AAP Thursday battled its first major crisis after disgruntled legislator Vinod Kumar Binny threatened to fast against the new government of Arvind Kejriwal. “I will start an agitation Jan 27 at Jantar Mantar if the government does not fulfil the promises made to the people of Delhi,” Binny told the media. He accused […]